Quotes by : William O. Douglas

Sunlight is the best disinfectant.

We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where....

Once the government can demand of a publisher the names of the purchasers of his publications, the free....

Security can only be achieved through constant change through discarding old ideas that have outlived....

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American....

Free speech is not to be regulated like diseased cattle and impure butter. The audience that hissed yesterday....

We are a religious people whose institutions presuppose a Supreme Being.

Marriage is a coming together for better or for worse, hopefully enduring, and intimate to the degree....

The American government is premised on the theory that if the individual man is to be free, his ideas,....